I love being a writer and a journalist. It's an honor, really, when people share their lives with me. I've been a journalist for 20 years, after a brief stint as a lawyer, and have reported and written on everything from law to politics to health. I've won a number of awards for my articles, including the Massachusetts Bar Association's first-ever "Excellence in Law-Related Journalism" award, and awards from the Associated Press, the American Bar Association, and the New England Newspaper Association. I take journalism very seriously. It plays a critical role in our democracy, and so I take accuracy and fairness very seriously.

I'm a proud graduate of Centenary College of Louisiana (don't know Robert Parrish, though) and Vanderbilt University Law School, and I've worked on staff as a writer and editor at the New Bedford Standard-Times, Lawyers Weekly USA, and a variety of other publications before being fortunate enough to become a freelancer a few years ago.

I write now for the Boston Globe, the Boston Globe Magazine, Boston Magazine, Harvard Law Bulletin, and many others. I teach memoir and other non-fiction writing at Grub Street, Boston's cool writing center, where I especially enjoy teaching teens. I've also taught media law (libel, privacy, and related issues) as an adjunct professor at Southern New England School of Law, as well as to practicing lawyers through Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education.

I live outside Boston with my partner Jack and our slew of teenagers.